Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (DRA1770280407)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Drakontas LLC's Ransomware and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Drakontas LLC Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Drakontas LLC breach identified under incident ID DRA1770280407.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Drakontas LLC's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/drakontas-llc, the number of followers: 439, the industry type: Public Safety and the number of employees: 8 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 724 and after the incident was 588 with a difference of -136 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Drakontas LLC and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "DragonForce Ransomware Emerges as a Global Threat with Dual-Extortion Tactics", has drawn attention.
A new ransomware operation, DragonForce, has rapidly become a major cybersecurity threat since its debut in late 2023, targeting organizations across multiple industries with advanced encryption and data theft techniques.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Windows, Linux and ESXi, and exposing Sensitive business data, personally identifiable information.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Phishing (T1566) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model equips affiliates and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating network reconnaissance via SMB port scanning. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shadow copy deletion using WMIC commands and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware toolkit with delayed-start attacks. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Scheduled Task/Job (T1053) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating delayed-start attacks to evade detection. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating cross-platform functionality (Windows, Linux, ESXi). Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Indicator Removal: File Deletion (T1070.004) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating shadow copy deletion using WMIC commands, Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion (T1497) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating dry run testing to refine attacks before execution, and Masquerading (T1036) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating code reuse from previous malware families. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating network reconnaissance via SMB port scanning. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating network reconnaissance via SMB port scanning and File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating customizable file targeting for encryption. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: SMB/Windows Admin Shares (T1021.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating network reconnaissance via SMB port scanning. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exfiltrating sensitive information, dual-extortion strategy. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating centralized data leak site (DLS) for hosting stolen data. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration as part of dual-extortion strategy and Exfiltration Over Web Service (T1567) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating centralized data leak site (DLS) for hosting stolen data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (100%), supported by evidence indicating advanced encryption modes (full, header, partial) and Data Destruction (T1485) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shadow copy deletion using WMIC commands. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Drakontas LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/drakontas-llc/incident/DRA1770280407
- Drakontas LLC CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/drakontas-llc
- Drakontas LLC Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/dra1770280407-dragonforce-ransomware-december-2023/
- Drakontas LLC CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/drakontas-llc/history
- Drakontas LLC CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybersecuritynews.com/dragonforce-ransomware-attacking-critical-business/
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf